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Teaching with AI Clinics

Join us for a series of informal clinics for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students that explore ways to leverage generative AI for better and more engaged learning. These sessions will focus on original models for incorporating AI into teaching developed by Teaching with AI Fellows. Participants will be introduced to these models, provided prompts so they can play with them, and discuss modifications and applications to their specific discipline. 

The clinics listed below are not sequential, and we invite you to register for any and all clinics that interests you. To facilitate access, six clinics are each being offered twice across two weeks in November.

Registrants are encouraged to bring a laptop, to facilitate exploration and modification of these models. All registrants will be set up with access to a Columbia University-supported generative AI platform for this purpose.

Teaching Development Program logoTeaching with AI Clinics count towards completion of CTL’s Teaching Development Program (TDP) for graduate students.

Engaging Students with Primary Materials

Approaches to using AI to help students discover, understand, and draw on source materials for research-based assignments

  • Wednesday Nov. 5, 11:40 a.m. – 12:55 p.m., 212 Butler  – Register
  • Thursday Nov. 13, 11:40 a.m. – 12:55 p.m., 212 Butler  – Register
Honing Independent Research Skills

Approaches to using AI to help students think critically about research materials, and to refine research questions and topics.

  • Wednesday Nov. 5, 1:10 – 2:25, 212 Butler – Register
  • Thursday Nov. 13, 1:10 – 2:25, 212 Butler – Register
Deepening Experience with a New Language

Approaches to using AI to help students get target language practice, at the same time gaining insights on their strengths and weaknesses.

  • Wednesday Nov. 5, 2:40 – 3:55 pm, 212 Butler – Register
  • Thursday Nov. 13, 2:40 – 3:55 pm, 212 Butler – Register
Helping Students Check Their Understanding

Approaches to using AI as a ‘student’ for actual students to teach, allowing them to identify gaps in their understanding of course concepts.

  • Thursday Nov. 6, 11:40 a.m. – 12:55 p.m., 212 Butler – Register
  • Wednesday Nov. 12, 11:40 a.m. – 12:55 p.m., 212 Butler – Register
Making Teaching Materials More Accessible

Approaches to using AI to help create accessible, engaging, and relatable materials for students who may not have much experience with a course’s subject area.

  • Thursday Nov. 6, 1:10 – 2:25, 212 Butler – Register 
  • Wednesday Nov. 12, 1:10 – 2:25, 212 Butler – Register 
Scaffolding Coding Skills

Approaches to using AI as an ‘on-call TA’ that can help students get immediate, targeted, and scaffolded help while learning coding skills.

  • Thursday Nov. 6, 2:40 – 3:55 pm, 212 Butler – Register 
  • Wednesday Nov. 12, 2:40 – 3:55 pm, 212 Butler – Register 

CTL Facilitators

Ian Althouse and Mark Phillipson

 

Contact

Any questions? Email ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu.

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